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Dr. Phil Roe Describes All Of The Above Approach To Fighting Obamacare

Dr. Phil Roe (R-TN) is the Co-Chair of the GOP Doctors Caucus in the House of Representatives. In an interview on Friday, he described the strategy behind the vote to defund Obamacare, the negative effects that Obamacare is having across the nation, and the status of the defunding coalition in the House and Senate. A second article will discuss Roe's new bill, HR 3121, that is a market based alternative to Obamacare.

Dr. Roe says that he's introduced the term 'herd immunity' several times with House leadership, in an attempt to get the coalition to stay together: "In medicine, when discussing infectious disease, if everyone in the herd is immunized, nobody gets sick. When individuals go without, they can get sick and spread disease among the herd. Republicans can learn from this - when we stick together, we're stronger. The American people want leadership from somebody, and they haven't been getting it." Roe was adamant that this vote was good for the nation, and that America was looking to House Republicans to show real leadership on the issue.

Roe believes that every Republican on the Hill is dedicated to getting rid of Obamacare, but they may differ on the strategy to achieve this goal. When asked about Senator Cruz's statements late last week and whether they hindered the momentum to defund, Roe said, "I haven't spoken with him since the report, but I think he's probably had a re-think. We have sent the ball over to their court now. The House has done its job. I won't give us kudos though, because there's a lot of work to do. Next week's votes are gonna be a lot tougher", once they know what bill is returned to them after a vote in the Senate.

However, Roe is dedicated to this effort, citing several examples of clinics that are cutting jobs, contrary to expectations, due to Obamacare. "In my state, one large clinic is laying off 1,000 people and cutting its budget by $250 million. Cleveland Clinic recently announced that it is cutting 3,000 workers. And Lee County, Virginia, just over the state line from my district, is closing its county hospital due to Obamacare - and they'll never get another hospital again."

Some pundits on the Right have said that the defunding effort is bad strategy, stating that there's no end game and no pathway to success, as it appears unlikely that the bill will emerge intact from the Democrat-controlled Senate. "I don't disagree with that," said Roe, "but that's the hand we've been dealt. A delay might be better. But I absolutely believe that this is good for the country." Roe expressed strong support for an all-of-the-above strategy to attack Obamacare on every front possible, under the belief that allowing it to be implemented as-is will be disastrous.

Roe was quick to dismiss worries that the Republicans would get blamed for a government shutdown. "I wasn't elected to close the government down - our job is to run the government." He blamed Democrats for not passing a budget in his 5 years in Congress, reminding us that "the CR [continuing resolution] is a terrible way to run the government." Roe went back to 1978 and found that there had been 17 previous government shutdowns - "six under Reagan! I didn't even know there were any!" - and found that in each instance, there were sufficient appropriations bills passed that the government really wasn't shut down. But he's preparing for a fight this time. "I am absolutely adamant that we get our soldiers paid and that we do our job." Again, he reminds us, it's a matter of the GOP sticking together and effectively communicating who is to blame for any shutdown. After all, the House voted to fund the entire government, excluding Obamacare. Any refusal to pass the bill in the Senate will be the fault of Democratic leadership in that chamber.

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"The Obama administration has unilaterally altered Obamacare again in a way that is wholly illegal, expending money from the Treasury without Congressional approval. Someone ought to pay dearly for this crime, but like all such actions in this administration, it is our children who will pay. "

The Obama administration has unilaterally altered Obamacare again in a way that is wholly illegal, expending money from the Treasury without Congressional approval. Someone ought to pay dearly for this crime, but like all such actions in this administration, it is our children who will pay.

President Obama continues to lose the youth’s support-and fast. Just a few months ago, Harvard released a poll showing that 57% of Millennials disapproved of ObamaCare. That same poll showed that 54% of Americans from ages 18-29 disapproved of Obama, while only 41% approved. These statistics aren’t all that surprising, as Obama has made things extremely hard for the average millennial in his first 5 years. Student loan debt, job availability, ObamaCare and the overall national debt have crippled America’s youth.

The South Carolina Senate is taking up an extraordinary bill this week, H 3101, that (with an amendment) would be a model for state resistance to ObamaCare. The underlying bill was in need of strengthening, so Senator Tom Davis has offered an amendment that would make the bill airtight. The bill would, for all intents and purposes, nullify ObamaCare in South Carolina, using a Supreme Court-approved procedure called "anti-commandeering".

Fewer and fewer doctors in the US are self-employed, and more employed by hospitals. That is a direct result of government policy, sharply accelerated by Obamacare. The trend will be damaging to American health care. It is still possible to reverse the decline, but powerful forces want it to continue.

There is a myth in politics that elections are won and lost in the middle. The premise is that "independent" voters support tenets of both major political parties and candidates must craft their message to attract a majority of these "moderates." Despite the fact that nearly twice as many Americans self-identify as conservative as compared to liberal, conservatives are often referred to as "extremists," or worse.

I don’t want to shock our readers but, occasionally, liberals can be inconsistent. They can be, if one dares use the term, hypocritical. This latest example came to my attention as I was researching a recent piece on the case the Supreme Court is hearing with regards to unions.

Conservatives were right to warn that Governor John Kasich’s embrace of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion would increase government spending and hurt Ohio’s labor force, a February 4 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report affirms.States still being pressured to take "free" Medicaid expansion money from DC should learn from Kasich's mistake.

Obamacare has been a drag on the US economy so far based mostly on uncertainty and on businesses preparing to comply with its various rules, mandates, penaties, taxes, and fees. But a new report from the CBO shows that the law will trap people in unemployment and cause higher deficits, piling onto the national debt while lower tax receipts make it harder for the government to repay.

Fearing baldness, I long ago stopped scratching my head at the public moves of the Republican hierarchy. With Obamacare crumbling like a celebrity marriage all around them, the Democrats are so desperate that they're focusing on raising the minimum wage-a "feel good" bunch of nonsense that benefits an age demographic that isn't even old enough to vote for them. But they need people to talk about anything but Obamacare.